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Noun
1. decadenceFrom French “décadence”
Wikipedia definition
2. DecadenceDecadence can refer to a personal trait or to the state of a society (or segment of it) which is used to describe a person's lifestyle. Concise Oxford Dictionary: "a luxurious self-indulgence". Oscar Wilde gave a curious definition: "Classicism is the subordination of the parts to the whole; decadence is the subordination of the whole to the parts. " In social context, the word 'decadent' is often used to describe corrosive decline due to an erosion of moral, ethical, and sexual traditions.
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